As we head towards the festive season, celeb mum Giovanna Fletcher has shared her lovely family Christmas tradition.

Giovanna, who has two children – Buzz, three, and 21-month-old Buddy – with husband and former McFly singer Tom Fletcher, has opened up about their Christmas traditions.

In an interview with Hello! magazine, Giovanna said:

‘We do the Elf on the Shelf thing every day but really [our tradition] is for my family to come over the night before on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas Day for everyone to wake up and Tom's family comes over for us all to be together, I guess that's really our tradition.’

She also said that as her sons are getting a little older, Christmas is becoming even more magical:

‘[Buzz] knows all about Father Christmas, he is learning Christmas songs at nursery, we are teaching him them, it's all very, very lovely.

‘I think last year we were like, “It's so magical now he understands it,” but I think every year it gets more happier and more magical.’

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Work-life balance

Also talking about her new novel Some Kind of Wonderful, Giovanna touched on her and Tom’s work-life balance:

‘We just try to be as supportive as we can be really and hope that it kind of balances each other out!

‘We are never both away at the same time but we do have great help with Tom's mum and dad when we are both on deadline or whatever else.

‘But yes, I think we both just love what we do so we just make it work.’

She added that she often stayed up until midnight writing her book:

‘I can't really justify not being with [the kids] and not doing anything… the most of this book was written with my spending nine to four in my office then you know, having family time after that, and then from seven when the boys would go to sleep, writing again till about midnight.’